Missouri USA-1961: Herd Of Cows Grazing In A Pasture Near A Rock Formation

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationMissouri, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Missouri

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Herd Of Cows Grazing In A Pasture Near A Rock Formation — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a herd of brown and white cows grazing in a sun-drenched pasture in Missouri. The footage, viewed through a dark frame, shows the animals moving slowly across the field under a pale sky, with a faint rock formation visible in the distance. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and vertical scratches, evoking a nostalgic, rural Americana moment from the early 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124870301

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1961 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Missouri, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s rural Missouri home-movie footage for productions needing a brief archival cutaway of cattle grazing in an open pasture.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, muted palette and rural pasture setting support the 1961 home-movie context in the metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the herd at a distance with an unstaged, family-film feeling rather than arranged agricultural coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include brown and white cattle, dry pasture grass, a pale sky, distant low horizon, dark frame edges and a rock outcrop or shelter-like formation.
Film character: The clip has 8mm grain, mild color fading, vertical scratches and a dark gate-like frame that give it a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural insert, pastoral transition, livestock cutaway or quiet memory beat within a 1960s Americana sequence.
Historical context: The footage places ordinary cattle grazing within a Midwestern rural landscape, offering visual context for farm life without showing people or machinery.
Research note: No people, logos or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location and any property implications should still be reviewed before licensing.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 Missouri 8mm cattle pasture, vintage home movie cows grazing and rural Americana livestock footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then Missouri 1961 material, then broader rural livestock, pasture or Midwestern home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Missouri 8mm frame showing several brown and white cows grazing in a flat pasture with dark film-frame edges. — Cows graze across an open Missouri pasture in a 1961 home-movie frame.

Brown and white cattle graze in a Missouri pasture, with soft 8mm color and visible dark framing from the scan. — The herd continues grazing slowly across the pasture.

A 1961 Missouri home-movie frame shows cows grazing near a low rock formation or shelter-like structure in open pasture. — Cattle graze near a low rock formation or shelter-like shape at the pasture edge.

Brown and white cows graze beside a low rock formation or shelter-like structure in 1961 Missouri 8mm footage. — The final frame holds on cows grazing beside the low rocky structure.

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